Indictment Potential in Illinois Governor Small Case
Springfield July 20 United Press reports Governor Len Small and Lieutenant Governor Fred Sterling face a grand jury over alleged misuse of public funds tied to a $10 million Illinois deposit. Civil suits to reclaim about $2.5 million in interest are planned regardless of the grand jury outcome.
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United Press
Springfield
Brand
Illinois
Len Small
Fred Sterling
Edward Miller
Harry Luerhrs
Small
Jess
Grant Park Bank
Chicago Packers
Pheddarateemnaut
Esterce
Whinsis
Fred E. Sterling
Sangamon County
Lajerne Curtis
Grant Ark Bank
Edward Curtis
State EE
Sterling
Curtis
Ilinois
Grant Park State Bank
Glidden Memorial Hospital Progress in DeKalb
The Joseph F. Glidden Memorial hospital cornerstone laid. walls rise to second floor and exterior work advances. Once exterior finish is done, cement work on the second floor begins, with rapid interior progress anticipated if weather stays favorable. The growing structure stands as a significant city improvement for DeKalb residents.
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Joseph F. Glidden Memorial Hospital
DeKalb
Vacation Camp For Veteran At Fort Sheridan
The Federal Board and the Fort Sheridan Association cooperate in a Veteran's Vacation Camp at Fort Sheridan Illinois. The camp serves Federal Board students in the Eighth District covering Wisconsin Illinois and Michigan. Excellent quarters and high quality activities including athletics bathing theatre and other recreation are provided with reservations from many localities.
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FT. Sheridan
Federal Board
Fort Sheridan
Groundhog Day Fire News Slips to Fire Crew
Fire department members will receive first news on Groundhog Day from their trained groundhog. The station had secured the animal some time ago and it now rests in its den, occasionally venturing out as it prepares its winter home. The crew reports the animal is temperamental while reworking its den.
Farmers to Organize in Grain Growers Plan in Illinois
Illinois Agricultural Association announces the launch of the U.S. Grain Growers Inc plan to organize in LaSalle McLean DeKalb counties and others. Twelve organizers per county are in training in Chicago and posters urge farmers to sign five year delivery agreements to market grain through designated local elevators and existing channels.
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Ity
Chicagoe
U.S
Chicago
Grain Growers, Inc
New Larmer Corporation
Painters Busy About Town and Country
Kalb painters and decorators are unusually active with many homes in town receiving fresh coats of paint. Downtown stores are being repainted and farmers are painting buildings, with about ten farm jobs handled by one company.
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Kalb
Trumpet Island at the Star draws big eye catch
A star theater presents Trumpet Island a major super feature by Gou veneur Morris produced with a budget over a quarter million dollars. Performances run at 7 30 and 9 10 tonight and tonight.
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Trumpet Island
Gouveneur Morris
Chronicle
Honeymoon Ends as Groom Is jailed for False Pretenses
Minnie Merves and Emmet Bell planned to wed in Oregon with a license borrowed money and a hired driver. The marriage occurred but Bell failed to repay eight dollars leading to his arrest for obtaining money by false pretenses and confinement in Winnebago county jail.
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Lwekford
Minnie Merves
Emme
Bell
Minnie
Kehelie
Orexon
Miner
Rockford
Winnebago County
Piano Factory at Genoa To Reopen as Electric Piano Plant
The Operators Piano Co of Chicago has bought the Nelson company machinery and supplies and plans to open a Genoa electric piano factory. Foreman W Miller is in Genoa preparing for operations and Miller says the firm is financially sound and established. Bradstreet confirms the claim and production will run at full capacity once supplies and organization are in place.
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Operators Piano Co
Chicago
Nelson Company
W. Miller
Genoa
M Miller
Bradstre
Band concert at Huntley Park draws crowded crowd
Huntley Park hosted a band concert last evening with hundreds attending. The program pleased the audience as the boys delivered an exceptionally good performance, overcoming expectations of a light turnout and drawing a strong turnout throughout the night.
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Huntley Park
Band Boys
Robbery at Cortland Targets Peter Larson Store
Robbers gained entry by prying a window at Cortland store operated by Peter Larson. They stole dry goods and groceries, mainly overalls underwear stockings and canned foods. Loss estimated in hundreds. no clues found. police alerted districtwide.
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Peter Larsen
Cort Fund
Larron
Mar. Larson
Abingdon Man Killed Flying at Ellington Field
Lieutenant Willard S. Clark of Abington AI died when his scout plane fell 2400 feet in a tail spin at Ellington Field. He enlisted in 1917 in Chicago and served as a flying instructor at Love Field Dallas and other fields. He was 27, married, and his wife resides at the post.
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Houston
Texas
Willard S. Clark
Abington
Police Box Pried Open After Broken Lock Fails
A police box at Seventh and Lincoln highway could not be opened with the key due to a broken lock. The door was pried open and the lock removed for repair. Dessmaking Expert Olive Hart advertises design work and guarantees. Phone 03 319 East South St. (196) Chronicle Want Ads.
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Seventh
Lincoln Highway
Dessmaking
Olive Hart
East South St
Illinois indictments amid state funds scandal and shoop death
Springfield Illinois July 20. Len Small and Fred E Sterling along with La jerne Curtis face indictments for misusing state funds amid a major political scandal. Concurrently Isaac O Shoop dies in Elgin after residing in DeKalb area all his life. Funeral in Maple Park with interment at Pierce.
Burlington Hauls Water to Galesburg Now
Twenty seven carloads of water were hauled to Galesburg last week to relieve Burlington. About 279000 gallons were transported at minimum cost. More trains are being used and it is believed one billion gallons will be delivered daily to meet urgent demand.
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Galesburg
Burlington
Dr F E Graves Formerly of Hinckley Dies
Dr. F E Graves, longtime Hinckley physician and familiar figure in DeKalb county, died at his Tennessee home yesterday morning. He was known to many DeKalb residents. James Sawyer and wife learned of Mrs Sawyer’s father’s death. they may travel to Tennessee depending on transportation.
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F. E. Graves
Hinckley
Tennessee
Graves
DeKalb
James Sawyer
Mrs. Sawyer
Japan to Come if She Knows Details
Washington dispatch reports that Japan will accept the American invitation to discuss the Pacific situation at the forthcoming disarmament conference if she is assured the scope of the talks will be clearly defined before the meeting.
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Japan
Washington, DC
Aurora Kiwanis Crowned at Joliet Picnic Victory
Auroras Kiwanis club returned from the Dellwood Park event in Joliet with multiple honors. They won the Beacon-News silver cup for the championship baseball team by defeating Joliet 11 to 5, and earned the silver cup trophy for the most points among represented organizations. Seventy five of the 500 attendees were Aurorans.
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Aurers Kiwanians
Stgn
Dellwod Park
Joliet
Beacon-News
Young Men Ride to City on Bicycles
Herbert Hampson and Henry Prentice started for Chicago on bicycles to visit Mrs. Hampson. Prentice later drove ahead in his car and helped the two cyclists into Wheaton, then they continued toward Chicago. They reached Wheaton around 10 o clock after five hours on the road.
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Herbert Hampson
Henry Prentice
Chicago
Shabbona Man Pays Fine for Maltreatment of Horse
Perry Challand of Shabbona was fined 56.63 for driving a sick and disabled horse on the streets. Deputy Klossman of the Aurora Humane Society intervened after a report and a large depot sign urged kindness to animals.
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Perry Challand
Shabbona
Bris F. C. Klossman
Aurora Humane ‘Society
Justice of the Peace
Challand
Camp Grant discharge applications rise in Rockford
Four thousand and sixty six Camp Grant soldiers apply for discharge under the army reduction order. Sixteen hundred are to be mustered out this week as reported by Chronicle Want Ads.
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Camp Grant Rockford, Ill
Camp Grant
DeKalb Students Pledge for Illinois Stadium Drive
DeKalb county students at the University of Illinois pledged 3650 for the new stadium during campus campaigns. The total places the county among leaders with average gifts over 11 dollars and a top honor pledge of 100 dollars. Alumni quotas set minimums at 100 and honor at 200, payable over years. A nationwide campaign is planned to begin October 29 around the Michigan game.
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Urbana
DeKalb County
University of Ilinois
W. Elmer Ekblaw
Michigan
Illinois
Kane County to pave Lincoln Highway approach into St. Charles
Kane County supervisors allocate 1800 dollars to pave a cement approach from Lincoln Highway into St. Charles. The project follows prior gravel condition after property owners initially blocked a left hand curve. Now permission is granted and bids will be advertised for, with work to start as soon as possible.
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Kane County
Lincoln Highway
St. Charles
St. Charles School For Boys
Prairie Street
Geneva
Look into Klu Klux Klan in Texas prompts echoes of law action
Austin July 20 The south West faces the question of an invisible empire within itself The Klu Klux Klan revived in Texas and two resolutions are proposed in the senate to remove the cause for its existence and to investigate its actions Senator Edgar Witt plans to name the organization as bona fide but warns of masquerade groups Police report say many assaults and events linked to the Klan were carried out by masked groups in Texas this year including charity acts and a brutal tarring and feathering of a white woman
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United Press
Austin
Texas
Klu Klux Klan
Scotland
Texas Senate
Klan
New
Southwest
Edgar Witt
Bona Fide Klan
Xitts of Charity
Convict Shot as He Prepares to Drop Boulder
In Joliet July 29 Wasco Ankowicz alias Vaselin Koyich a convict at the penitentiary quarry was shot dead by a guard as he stood on a ledge about to drop a massive rock on the keeper. The felon was found hiding in a small pit and told to come out before firing occurred. Secor's advertises handbags with discount prices.
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Joliet. US
Wasco Ankowicz
Vaselin Koyich
Burns Tells Tale Amid Black Sox Trial Revelations
Chicago report on Bill Burns detailing his involvement with gambling tied to the 1919 World Series. He describes money exchanges with Ban Johnson, use of aliases, and trips to Mexico and Texas as he recounts meetings with Cicotte Gandill and other players during the probe. The cross examination exposes alleged payoffs and arranged outcomes as the defense fights to limit testimony.
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United Press
Chicago
Black Sox
Bill Burns
White Sox
Burns
Liberty
O’brien
Ban Johnson
O'Brien
Ropes
Abe Attel
Mexico
Texas
Williams
Thomas
Johnson
Rothstein
New York
Cincinnati
Attel
Bill Margard
Gamblers
Gleason
Risberg
McMullen
Cicotte
GandhiJl
Judee
Friends
Gorman
Sherman
Gandill
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Larsen
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Isaac Shoop
Swift and Armour
Brundage
London
Thompson
Elgin
Isaac O. Shoop
Maple Park
Pierce
Mr. Shoop
Pierce Township
de Kalb
Benjamin
Catherine Shoop
George W. Shoop
North Western
William H. Shoop
Kaneville
Gabriel Snyder
James A. Shoop
Chiesto
Carolyne Taylor
Griffith
Ind
Sarah A. Milley
Sandwich
Harriet Beverly
Wesley J. Shoop
Colo
Mary A. Hoyt
Pottalb
Catherine A. Crafton
Big, Piney, Wyo
Webster B. Shoop
Etburn
Shoop
Harvey Snyder
Aurora Kyis
Dekalb School
Klux Klan
Keeper
Kantose
Secor's
Sox
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